It's definitely on your end:
http://www.orourke.ca/test.php
I verified your issue on your server and could not reproduce it on mine.
Our phpinfo data looks the same.
Here's a hunch. Try calling output buffering at the top of your page:
ob_start();
I have this on my site to allow for mid-page redirects. I have no idea if this is the cause. Just an idea. Perhaps an Apache 2 issue? Can any one else confirm this on Apache 2 / PHP 4.3.10?
Dan T
On Mar 1, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Elizabeth Lawrence wrote:
Thanks, Dan. I copied your code exactly and posted it here:
http://www.tidefans.com/test.php I pasted a large part of O'Henry's "Gift of
the Magi" into the textarea, and it gets repeated, as before.
Thanks for any help, Elizabeth
-----Original Message----- From: Dan Tappin [mailto:dan@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 6:59 PM To: Elizabeth Lawrence Subject: Re: textarea posting duplicate text
Create a new file:
test.php
with this exactly in the contents:
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>TEST</TITLE> </HEAD>
<BODY> <FORM ACTION="test.php" METHOD="post" NAME="test"> <TEXTAREA NAME="textarea" ROWS="4" COLS="40"></TEXTAREA> <P><INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="submitButtonName"></P> </FORM> <P><? print_r($_REQUEST); ?></P> </BODY>
</HTML>
Load the page, enter some text and hit submit. Rule out some strange issue with your page. Confirm it's a PHP issue not a coding one.
Dan T
On Feb 28, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Elizabeth Lawrence wrote:
Hello. I have been asked to look at a PHP issue for someone, and I
can't
figure out what the problem is. I'm hoping one of you experts can help!
They are using Red Hat Linux / Ensim Pro 4.0.2, PHP 4.3.10, and Apache 2.0.
The problem: When a lot of text is entered into a textarea on a form, the text that shows up in the $_POST['textarea'] variable has the text that was entered, but it is duplicated. This is causing problems for their forums. Here is a very simple script I placed on the server: www.tidefans.com/textarea_test.php (code below)
When I place the same script on another server I have access to, the textarea text is "posted" fine.
Is this a PHP setting somewhere that I'm missing?
Here is the code for the PHP script mentioned above:
<html>
<head>
<title>Test PHP Script</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method=post action="textarea_test.php" name="Form1">
<textarea cols=50 rows=20 name=textarea>
//[a bunch of text goes here]
</textarea><br>
<input type=text name=text size=20 value="This is some text"><br>
<input type=submit name=Submit value="Submit">
<?php
if ($_POST[Submit] != "")
{
echo "<h1>_POST values</h1>";
echo "<p>Textarea submitted:</p>";
echo "<pre>" . $_POST[textarea] . "</pre>";
echo "<p>Textbox submitted:</p>";
echo "<pre>" . $_POST[text] . "</pre>";
echo "<p>Submit submitted:</p>";
echo "<pre>" . $_POST[Submit] . "</pre>";
}
?>
</form>
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
</body>
</html>
If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it so
much!
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Lawrence
elawrence@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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